Outline On Macbeth

Macbeth
1. Macbeth died on August 15, 1057, 17 years to the day since becoming King after being fatally wounded at the battle at Lumphanan.
2. In 1050, Macbeth became the first Scottish king known to make a pilgrimage to Rome.
3. Lady Macbeth’s real name was Gruoch and Macbeth’s was Mac Bethad mac Findlaích.
4. The name Mac Bethad (or MacBheatha in modern Gaelic) means ‘son of life’.
5. Macbeth is the only play by Shakespeare that mentions a rhinoceros.
6. The origin of the belief that it’s unlucky to say “Macbeth” in a theatre is unclear. Some blame early disasters in performances.
7. The most likely explanation is that a production of Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most popular play, was often the last act of a struggling theatre company.…show more content…
If you do say “Macbeth” in a theatre, you are meant to walk three times in a circle anti-clockwise, then say a rude word or spit.
9. There are 17,121 words in Macbeth, which is eight fewer than Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
10. Verdi’s opera Macbeth has not just three witches but a whole chorus of at least two dozen.
11. Let’s talk about the death of Macbeth. He passed away on 15th August 1057. It was 17 years after he wounded at the battle of Lumphanan and after he became a king.
12. The real name of Lady Macbeth was Gruoch. The real name of Macbeth was Bethad mac Findlaích. The meaning of Mac Bethad is son of life. In Modern Gaelic, it was called MacBheatha.
13. The first king who made a pilgrimage to Rome was Macbeth. He did it in 1050.
14. the only play of Shakespeare which mentions the word a rhinoceros is in Macbeth
15. Some people think that mentioning the word Macbeth in a theater is considered as unlucky for the whole performance. This condition probably occurs because of the disaster when the Macbeth play was performed for the first time.
16. If you unintentionally say the word Macbeth in a theater, you need to walk three times in a circle anti clockwise. Then you have to spit or say a rude word. Then the unlucky effect of this word can…show more content…
In 1594, Shakespeare became one of the founders of Lord Chamberlain’s Men, an acting/theater group that soon became the leading player’s company in London.
10. In 1597, the theater in which The Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed was forced to close since it had been built on leased land. Many partners invested in a new theater built on the south bank of the Thames river. The new theater was called The Globe.
11. Plays were performed only in the afternoon, by daylight.
12. Laws at the time prohibited people from dressing above their rank in life. Players (actors) were the only exception to this rule, and could dress as noblemen on stage without being arrested and locked in the stocks.
13. Women were not allowed to act in plays during Shakespeare’s time, so in all of his plays, women’s roles were performed by boys/young men. (This meant that in As You Like It, the boy player had to play Rosalind, a woman who pretends to be a man pretending to be…a woman! [If I described that correctly, someone bring me a doughnut.)
14. Though the printing press existed and books were being mass-produced all over Europe, Shakespeare had little interest in seeing his plays in print. He’d written them not to be read, but to be performed on